I was under the impression that most file systems started to get performance degradation at a certain level of storage (ranging from 80% to 95%?). I would research more before using this trick...
-DMZ On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:23 -0400, Peter Teuben wrote: > a temporary trick is to set the root slackspace back to 0. It's by default 5% > or so. If you have a 100GB disk, and never did that, woohaa, you can suddenly > have 5 GB extra space!!!! > > So, try this: > > df /dev/hdaX > tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdaX > df /dev/hdaX > > where X is your partition number you want to expand to the maximum size. Of > your > if you have 4GB, then 5% is just a mere 200MB, still, better than the 50MB you > seem to have available now. > > peter > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Russ wrote: > > > Thanks for the help guys, > > > > What I actually wound up doing was using the installation disks to try and > > make hda4 my home directory after partitioning with cfdisk. After that I > > had some system behavior that I didnt like so I reinstalled everything > > again. I forgot that it took 2 hours to install. LOL. > > > > However, I only alloted 4G of space for everything except for my home > > directory. Unfortunately, the system says I have used 98.6 percent of > > the system partition. Is it possible to safely resize an existing > > partition? OR! Should I reinstall the OS again with more room. > > > > Russ > > > > > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Alexander Mahabir wrote: > > > > > On 8/19/05, Ben Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 06:57:46PM -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > > > > > Suggest you use reiser or ext3 rather than ext2, but ext2 good enough. > > > > > > > > > > something approximately like this might work > > > > > mke2fs /dev/hda4 > > > > > > > > or > > > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda4 > > > > > > > > > mount /dev/hda4 /mnt > > > > > mv /home/* /mnt > > > > > umount /mnt > > > > > > > > > mkdir /home #but it probably was a given =) > > > > > > > add a line to /etc/fstab: > > > > > /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 > > > > > > > > Make sure the third word here matches your filesystem type - ext2, > > > > ext3, > > > > or > > > > reiserfs. > > > > > > > > > then: > > > > > mount /home > > > > > > > > > > should pick it up then when it boots. > > > > > Good luck, hope that doesn't mess up your system :) > > > > > > > > Ben > > > > -- > > > > Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener > > > > neener. > > > > UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Russ Main > > > >
